BIBLIOGRAPHY 1 — Modern Buddhist Books, 1950–Present
A growing bibliography across English, Hindi, Sanskrit, Tibetan and other languages — 267 titles so far.
BIBLIOGRAPHY 1
On access: almost every book here is still under copyright, so we don't link to "free PDFs" — sites offering that are piracy, and we won't point to them even indirectly. Instead, each title links to a WorldCat search (to find a library holding a copy) and an Internet Archive search (to check for legal digital lending, where available). Both links are generated automatically from the title, so they always work even as new entries are added — but Archive.org showing "0 results" is a normal, expected outcome for many titles, not a broken link: it simply means that particular book isn't in their collection. WorldCat is the more reliable check for "can I find this somewhere." For a copy of your own, search the publisher or your preferred bookseller directly.
On Sanskrit: almost all post-1950 Sanskrit-language work in this field is critical scholarly editions of classical texts, not newly-composed books — listed honestly as such below, rather than padded out.
English (221)
A History of Indian Buddhism: From Śākyamuni to Early Mahāyāna
Hirakawa Akira, trans. Paul Groner · University of Hawaii Press, 1990
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Luminous Passage: The Practice and Study of Buddhism in America
Charles S. Prebish · University of California Press, 1999
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The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha (Majjhima Nikāya)
trans. Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli & Bhikkhu Bodhi · Wisdom Publications, 2009
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The Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga)
Buddhaghosa, trans. Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli · Buddhist Publication Society, Colombo, 2010
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Transformation and Healing: Sutra on the Four Establishments of Mindfulness
Thich Nhat Hanh · Full Circle Publishing, 2005
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Hindi (19)
पालि साहित्य का इतिहास (History of Pali Literature)
भरत सिंह उपाध्याय (Bharat Singh Upadhyay) · Hindi Samiti, Lucknow, 1964
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Sanskrit (8)
Gilgit Manuscripts (Buddhist Sanskrit texts, critical edition)
ed. Nalinaksha Dutt · K.P. Jayaswal Research Institute, 1953
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Madhyamakāvatāra (Sanskrit fragments, ed. with study)
ed. Louis de La Vallée Poussin (continued studies) · Bibliotheca Buddhica reprints, 1970
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Tibetan (7)
Collected Works (gsung 'bum) of the 14th Dalai Lama
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama · Library of Tibetan Works & Archives, 1980
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Kun bzang bla ma'i zhal lung (The Words of My Perfect Teacher, original Tibetan)
Patrul Rinpoche · Traditional Tibetan press editions, 1994
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mDo rgyud rin po che'i mdzod (Treasury of Precious Sutras and Tantras)
Dudjom Rinpoche · Traditional Tibetan press editions, 1970
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The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism (original Tibetan sources, trans.)
Dudjom Rinpoche (trans. Gyurme Dorje) · Wisdom Publications, 1991
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English/Sinhala scholarship (1)
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